LOL
What?!? No! Can’t be! I’m sure that’s racist or something!
We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added. - Ronald Reagan
Surely, anyone with a neuron still firing could have predicted this. Some European countries have "workfare", which requires you to show up at 7AM to wash windows, clean toilets...whatever needs to be done on gov't property to qualify for any welfare payments. You'd be surprised how many people find better paying jobs in the private sector.
The counties - Greene, Hale, Perry, Dallas, Lowndes, Wilcox, Monroe, Conecuh, Clarke, Washington, Choctaw, Sumter and Barbour.
Most of these counties are in or border the Black Belt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Belt_%28region_of_Alabama%29
This fertile strip of soil runs from VA to TX with some of the very richest being in Dallas County, AL.
Catfish farming in Perry, Hale, and Greene counties is HUGE.
Some farms harvest almost one million pounds per week.
Lotta jobs.
And, to stabilize that effort, they need to get rid of illegals. I know the (for the most part) cowards in state govt, especially in the governor’s mansion, say they cannot. It’s not true. There’s much they can do to make criminals/illegals seek greener pastures elsewhere.
A lot of the childless, able-bodied are college students who don't want to work while in school. They have found the loophole in the system that allows them to use SNAP instead of getting a job to make ends meet. A lot of campuses have also started food banks, because the notion of the "starving student" is so prevalent. They don't vet or ask questions, it's all on the honor system. My bet is in Alabama, a lot of those dropping off the SNAP rolls are the college students who lost their free ride.
Excellent....now rinse and repeat throughout the country.
How many ways to liberals hate the bible?
Add drug screening and we can get to 100%
I’ve known people that were truly desperate to eat and would do any work necessary to ensure they could provide food for their family. That 85% of these people stopped using SNAP because of work requirement tells me that the vast majority did not need this program to get food, it was just to get free stuff (as we already knew). This also reinforces other stories about how SNAP users are buying crap like chips and soda with the money.
Inconceivable!
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This will sound like a liberal comment, but it’s a serious question:
It’s easy to conclude from the article that a lot of able-bodied adults were getting benefits they didn’t need because, as the article indicates, enrollment in the program dropped 85% when a work requirement was re-instituted.
But that reading assumes they “voluntarily” dropped, i.e., that upon being required to work, they chose not to do so and dropped their SNAP benefit request, implying they didn’t really need it anyway.
A different reading, however, would be that the government simply cut them off if they didn’t have a job. Nothing voluntary about it. In fact, that’s pretty much what the article says, i.e., no work, no SNAP benefit.
This is one of those issues that might bear a little closer scrutiny before jumping to a conclusion, I’m thinking. Like I said, this will come off sounding like a liberal comment, but I don’t intend it that way. It’s conceivable that someone simply can’t get a job where he lives and now can’t afford to eat either. I’m skeptical of that conclusion applying very broadly, but it’s certainly possible that it’s happening in some cases.
And then there’s the issue of: if you get a job and start making money, do you lose access to SNAP altogether? That is, do you lose more than you gained by working, for that’s sometimes a real issue with government largesse.
Add to that the probability that a whole lot of people on SNAP (the able-bodied ones without dependents now, not the families) are likely making money in the cash economy and you get a pretty confusing mess to sort out.
It works every time it’s tried.
